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Show 150: How to Identify the Antichrist · The Uncensored Catholic

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A hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. We will continue where we
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left off yesterday. The question asked, did not Christ say, neither be
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he masters? For one is your master Christ Matthew twenty three ten. And
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they answer, the Pope is a servant of the servants of God. He
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himself tells us that one is our master Christ, whom he and all are
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bound to serve. He claims no authority independently of Christ. The text you
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forbids selfish tyranny in one's own name over other members of the church. It
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does not forbid the exercise of legitimate power. Obey your prelates and be subject
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to them, says Saint Paul. In Hebrews thirteen seventeen. The person says,
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I have heard that he is the Antichrist, and that he was described
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by Saint John as the number sixty sixty six, the numerical equivalent of the
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Latin words of the Pope's title vicarious philly day. And of course the answer
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that interpretation is absurd and rejected by all reputable scholars, Catholic and nons Catholic
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alike. Now that probably was very likely true in the nineteen thirties and forties.
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But now scholarship, I'm afraid, is at a far lower level than
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it ever has been. And yes, many Protestants truly believe this, many
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of them who would call themselves scholars. I actually had debate with one who
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called himself a biblical scholar, who seemed to know nothing of the actual meaning
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of the Bible as interpreted by Christians over the last two thousand years until about,
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oh, I don't know, fifty years ago. That's where his scholarship
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apparently picks up when he starts quoting anti Catholics and so called Torah observant Christians
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in Seven Day at Venice and all that. But thanks to the Internet,
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anyone can call themselves a scholar. Anyone can call themselves a preacher. Anyone
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could call exselves anything, and it's all given equal credence on the Internet in
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articles, and that's really actually very dangerous. Very You notice I never say
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anything without sourcing it. I mean, you know, I've got a basically
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three podcasts, my Catholic podcast, I've got the Southern Appalachian Herbs podcasts,
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and the Prepper Broadcasting the show I do for the Prepper Broadcasting Network, Herbal
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Medicine for preppers, you know, obviously when I'm dealing with medicinal herbs.
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You know, some plants can be quite toxic. Some plants can be absolutely
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deadly, like poisoned hymnlock or aconite right water hymnlock, which comes to mind.
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Many medical conditions are quite serious, very very serious. So I have
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to be very specific with my language. I have a disclaimer at the end
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of the show, but I go to great links to source every single thing
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I say, to define terms, to make everything perfectly clear. And that's
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my responsibility as a master herbalist. You know, I think I even have
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a greater responsibility when I'm talking on religion, on Catholic topics. I am
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not here to give you my opinion. Now in politics, you I might
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go off on my opinion, but I try my pest to source everything to
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Bible, chapter and verse, to the early Church fathers tell you who they
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were when they wrote, to the Catechism, to official Catholic teaching. So
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you know, I mean that's the authority. The church has the authority.
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I have no authority on my own. Jesus gape his authority to teach to
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his church. I am merely conveying to you a lot of stuff in old
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books that you might not otherwise get a chance to read on your own.
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And we discuss it, and I give my you know, if I have
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an opinion, if I have insight, but I make very clear what are
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my words and were the words of those with authority. Unfortunately, Protestants don't
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recognize any authority. They believe that the Holy Spirit guides each person into perfect
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understanding. If that were true, they couldn't all be disagreeing with each other,
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could they? I mean fifty thousand Protestant denominations, each of which disagrees
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with each other, and all of which disagree with the Catholic Church. But
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anyway, we'll get back to what I said. That interpretation is absurd and
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rejected by all reputable scholars, Catholic and non Catholic alike. In any case,
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Saint John wrote in Greek, and there is no warrant whatsoever for the
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translation to the Latin language to try and figure out what six x six means
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probably actually stood for the Emperor Nero's name. Some scholars have said it was
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actually a number, a number that would kind of given indication of his age.
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When the Antichrist comes or the date of his birth. You know,
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vary scholars over centuries have tried to figure it out, and no one's come
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up with a satisfactory answer. Moreover, whatever be the true interpretation of this
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mystical number, it certainly refers to someone individual being. If it referred to
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one particular pope, it cannot refer to the others to which pope would people
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refer it to a past pope, then he is dead and gone and we
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not worry about him. To the present pope, he is a very antithesis
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of all the conditions of the beasts. To subscribe by Saint John, we
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had a really good pope in the nineteen thirties. However, the number does
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not refer to any of the popes at all. And the person says,
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who is six sixty six if not the Pope? And they say many fantastic
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interpretations have been given, but none have been proved. The vast majority of
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interpreters regard the number as a mystical symbol designating some man who will be the
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chief agent of Satan's work toward the end of the world. Some people thought
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it was Mohammed, saying that he died in six sixty six AD, but
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he died in six thirty A. D. Calvin wished to attribute to Pope
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Boniface the Third, or to Pope's in general. His only foundation was prejudice,
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and his theory is utterly rejected Today. Martin Luther's name and dozens of
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others have been made to signify the number in various languages. But in all
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these cases the wish was farther to the thought, was father to the thought,
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I should have said, and was made to supply for lack of reason.
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The true solution to this question cannot be given. Person asked, well,
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why was Saint John so obscure? Was it merely to give us a
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conundrum? And they say no. He desired to show us that he knew
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the future revelation, but that he was not free to manifest all he knew
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to us. He explicitly says, let him that hath understanding count the number.
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The understanding required is not merely human wisdom, but an understanding of the
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same high plane as was the very revelation given to Saint John. I'm deterred
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by this warning those who are so confident that it refers to the Pope modestly
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ranked themselves with Saint John. That's you know, they're being a little facetious
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there, a little sarcastic. But no special wisdom is shown to any answer
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yet given. When a man has practiced all the other good advice in the
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New Testament, more practical and more clear, he will be making some progress
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or the wisdom necessary to understand such references. Possibly the text is intended for
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those who will be living in the times when it shall be clear from the
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events themselves. I think you know we've gotten into this topic of the number
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six sixty six. Okay, but you know what I'm going to deviate.
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I'm going to change my plan for the day. I've been reading a well
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I mentioned this the other I've been reading a fascinating book by Father Armignon,
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and actually just happened to be reading on this topic today. You know,
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there are no coincidences. The name of the book is the End of this
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present World and the Mysteries of the Life to Come. Classic work, very
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very interesting, very very controversial. It was a huge influence on Saint Teresa,
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so that should give it credibility. But it's not very politically correct and
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went out of print after Vatican Two. Fortunately for us, it was retranslated
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into English from the original French preserved and well you can well it's now available
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both in English and French at the very least, and actually it's on archive
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dot org if you want to read it. I am not sure where it's
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available in print. I don't think ten Books has this one, or you
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know, any other publisher, but I could be totally mistaken on that.
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So let's see what Father Armagnon wrote. I'm not gonna be able to give
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you the full passage today. I want to get into this book in depth
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at some point, probably after we finish up with Father Spirago. Well,
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let's see what Father Armagnon says that the about the Antichrist. All right,
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we'll start with he's just quoted from Revelations. He's just actually quoted from the
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very passage we were discussing. Anyway, So Father Armagnon says, what is
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clear and undeniable from the passage we've just quoted is that before the end of
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the world that will appear on Earth, the profoundly evil man invested with quasi
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superhuman power, who challenging Christ will wage an impious and foolish war against him.
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Through the fear which this man will inspire, and particularly by his stratagems
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and seductive genius, he will succeed in conquering almost the entire universe. He
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will have altars erected to himself, and will compel all peoples to adore him.
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Will this strange man, unique in his evil be one of our race?
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Will his face have the features of man? And will he have the
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same blood as ours flow in the veins of the ringleader of error and corruption?
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Or, as some have understood, will he be an incarnation of Satan,
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a demon thrown up from Hell and disguised in human form? Or again,
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as other doctors have maintained, is this wicked creature just a myth?
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Or an allegorical person personage in whom Holy Scripture and the Followers intend to portray
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in a single image the totality of tyrants and persecutors, to set out prominently
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the collective image of all the wicked and all the heresiarchs, people who hold
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heresies spread hereraes who have fought against Christian's Church since the beginning of time.
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These various interpretations cannot be reconciled with the definite precise texts of the Sacred Books.
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Among all the doctors and fathers, Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome, and
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Saint Thomas clearly maintain that this terrifying malefactor, this monster of impiety and depravity,
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will be a human person. The learned Bellarmine, Saint Bellermine, shows
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that it is impossible to give any other meaning to the words of Saint Paul
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and those of Daniel. Saint Paul designates this great adversary by a noun,
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calling him the man of sin, the man of perdition. Daniel informs us
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that he will attack all that is holy and worthy of respect, and exalt
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himself boldly against the God of gods, and consider as nothing the God of
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his fathers. All these various aspects and characteristics evidently cannot be applied to an
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ideal, abstract being. They can only fit an individual, flesh and blood,
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a real, definite personage. The fathers and doctors endeavored to ascertain the
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origin of the Antichrist and to discover from what parents and race he will come.
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They unanimously express the opinion that he will be born of Jewish parents.
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See this is one of the reasons the books had a print that's now even
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those traditional Catholic teaching going back to the early Church fathers. And there's a
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reason for that we'll get into for a moment. In a moment, it's
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now considered to be someone any Semitic to say, and I don't think it
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should be. Let's look at the reasoning of this. Right, he will
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be born of Jewish parents, and some declare that he will be of the
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tribe of Dan, such as the interpretation they give of the passage of Genesis.
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Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path,
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and of this other one from Jeremiah, the snorting of his horses was
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heard from Dan. They also surmise at Saint John his apocalypse for Boor to
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mention the tribe of Dan through hatred of the Antichrist. So see, there's
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actually biblical reasons to believe this, but all these suppositions are uncertain. What
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seems beyond doubt, though, is that the Antichrist will be of Jewish birth.
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Saint Ambrose and his commentary on the Epistles to the Thessalonians, says that
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he will be circumcised. Supplicius, I guess Servarus in his book two of
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his Diaclogue says that he will compel all his subjects to submit to circumcision.
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Moreover, all will concur in saying that at the beginning of his reign,
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he will succeed, by means of his trickery and fame, in making the
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Jews believe that he is the Messiah who they have unceasingly awaited, and that
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they and their blindness will hasten to receive him and honor them, honor him
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as such. Now, I mean, thinking about you know, the history
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of the universe and in the battle between good and evil, God and sa
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I mean, it only makes sense that the Antichrist would be born of the
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same tribe, the same people as the Christ. He would have to fulfill
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the same prophecies to hold himself up as the Messiah. And that, I
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mean, that makes a lot of sense. Okay, it's not shouldn't be
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offensive in any way. That is how Suarez and most of the commentators interpret
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this interpret the saying of our Lord Jesus Christ and Saint John, I am
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come in the name of my Father, and you receive me. Not if
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another shall come in his own name him, you will receive the same meaning
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must be given to these other words of Saint Paul and Thessalonians, because they
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receive not the love of truth that they might be saved. Therefore God shall
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send them the operation of error to believe. Lying Now, is it likely
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that the Jews would acclaim as the Messiah a man who did not belong to
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their race and had not been circumcised. Antichrist then will be a Jew?
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He will be born of an illegitimate union. The theologian Suarez tells us that
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this is uncertain. However, nevertheless, it must be presumed that a man
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so utterly evil, so opposed to Christ in his life and morals, will
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have an infamous origin. And just as Christ, and just as Christ had
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the Immaculate Virgin as his mother, so we may conclude, by analogy and
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induction, that his avowed adversary will be born of an impure union and will
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be the offspring of an unchased woman. He will be the child of fornication,
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says Saint John Domessine, damnasing in his birth will be saturated with the
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breath and spirit of Satan. What way may safely what may be as safely
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asserted of this man of iniquity is that right from his tenderest years, he
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will be completely possessed by the spirit and genius of the devil. The line
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of the Abyss, which in the last age is of kind, God,
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in his inscrutable justice, will unleash in order to punish the infidelity of man,
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will unite himself with him in a certain way, infusing him with the
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fullness of evil. No doubt, he will not be deprived of the assistance
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of his guardian angel, nor than necessary help of sufficient grace, which God
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bestows into the life of every single man. But his hatred of God will
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be so violent, his aversion for every good work so invincible, and his
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association in commerce with the spirit of darkness so close and continual, that from
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his cradle to his last breath, he will remain immutably hostile to all divine
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invitations, and grace from above will never penetrate his heart. Saint Thomas tells
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us that in his person and works, he will reveal himself as the reverse
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of the Son of God, and will parody his miracles and works. Since
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his origin, the evil spirit has ever pursued one single goal to usurp the
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place of the omnipotent God to form a kingdom from himself beloved, in compensation
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for the kingdom of heaven, from which he is excluded by his rebellion,
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and, says Tratullian, the more surely to attack this goal. He is
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in the habit of making himself the ape of God, counterfeiting all his works.
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The adversary of the last Time, then will not only set himself up
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as the avowed personal enemy of Jesus Christ, he will aim openly to dethrone
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him and replace him in the homage and veneration of men who have directed himself
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and have directed to himself the worshiping glory which are due to the Creator alone.
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He would declare, says to Saint Thomas, that he is the supreme
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eternal being, and by virtue of this he will ordain that honors and occult
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of latria or praise shall be accorded to him. Thus he will have priests,
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he will have sacrifices offered to him. He would demand that his name
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should should be invoked in oaths, and that men should use it to guarantee
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the security of treaties, in order to lend greater credence to this belief,
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he will counter divine revelation with false revelation. In opposition to the ceremonies of
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divine worship, he will set up his own impious rights, and against the
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eternal church founded by Christ, he will constitute an abominable society, of which
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he will be the leader. In pontiff, Saint Thomas adds that just as
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the fullness of the Divinity dwells corporeally corporally in the incarnate word, so the
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fullness of all evil was well in this terrible man, whose mission in works
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will be but an imitation in reverse, and an exporable counterfeit of the mission
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works of Christ. Through him, Satan will put the seal of his wickedness.
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He will make this living figure the quintessence, as it were, of
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all the sinister schemes in which he has formed against mankind, and will not
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cease to arouse in him the burning, implacable hatred of God which moves him,
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and the Lord of Heaven in his hidden councils will allow this firebrand from
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Hell to prevail for a time. Saint Thomas applies to this delegate of Satan
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the description well a capit omnium Malorum, the prince and instigator of all evil,
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essentially of all bad stuff, right of all covenousness of the flesh,
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the aberrations of the mind, so much that the master of lies and the
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architect of evil, who have followed one another in the course of all ages,
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will seem, by comparison with this man to be mere pigmies beside a
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giant. Thus he will repeat the infamous deeds of Nero. He will be
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filled with the hatred and violence of Diocletian. He will have the cunning and
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duplicity of Julie and the Apostate. He will resort to intimidation and will bend
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the earth beneath this scepter. Like Muhammad. He will be a learned man
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of philosopher, a skill a skillful orator, outstanding in the arts and the
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manufacturing sciences. He will handle mockery and ridicule like Voltaire. Lastly, he
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will work wonders and rise into the air like Simon Magnus. I mean Magnus
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is definitely a prefiguration of the Antichrist. If you ask why divine Providence will
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allow him to exercise such power and seduction. Saint Paul the apostles gives us
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the reason, because they receive not the love of truth, whereby they may
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be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error to believe,
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lying that all may be judged to have not believed it the truth, but
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have consented to iniquity. Suarez says that God will permit the coming of the
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Antichrist, particularly in order to punish the incredulity of the Jews, the latter
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not having wished to worship the True Messiah, nor to be convinced by his
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doctrine and miracles. God will them, for their punishment, to attach themselves
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to a false Messiah according credence to his impious deeds and doctrine, and to
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follow him in his dissolute life. At that time, the peri for souls
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will be great, and the scandal of the contagion universal. Nevertheless, in
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order that those who are taken by surprise may not attribute their misfortune to anyone
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but themselves, the Holy Spirit has sought to give us an outline in advance
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of the principal stages of that terrible, decisive trial, the climax of all
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that mankind has undergone. First of all, in order to make us understand
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the violence and ferocity of the man of sin, and the skill with which
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he will conduct the war he has undertaken against the Saints. Saint John the
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Apostle depicts him an apocalypse thirteen, under the figure of a monstrous beast,
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having ten heads or diadems on his horns, and written on each of these
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diadems the name of a blasphemy. According to the interpreters, these as will
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be ten diadems, and the ten diadems signify ten dependent kings, which will
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be his lieutenants and will act as the executors of his trickery and cruelty.
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Moreover, Saint John tells us that he will be invested with absolute sovereignty,
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and that his power will extend over all tribes and people, over all men
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in every nation and language. As he succeeds in overcoming the Saints by persecution
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carried out to the extreme limit, he will simultaneously give free reign to all
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kinds of licentiousness, and there will be no freedom except for evil. Lastly,
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he will be a master in the occult sciences and the art of magic,
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and through the agency of demons, he will perform wonderful deeds which will
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delude men and will take who will take them for true miracles. The first
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of these miracles mentioned by Saint John will be an apparent resurrection in one of
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the wars, where the Antichrist will appear as if mounted on a chariot of
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light and fire. He will be mortally wounded in the head. For a
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time he will be seen as lifeless and apparently dead. Then suddenly he will
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rise and his wound will be instantaneously healed. At the sight of this,
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at the sight of this, the deluded men, the unbelievers and free thinkers
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of that time, who, like those of our day, lacking any faith
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in the supernatural and in revealed truth, will spurn miracles as implacably condemned by
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science and reason. These men will give credits to the hoax. They will
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exclaim with enthusiasm and admiration, who is like to the beast, and who
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shall be able to fight with him. Secondly, the man of Sin will
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make fire come down from heaven in order to create the belief that he is
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the master of nature, the rule of the seasons, and that he has
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dominion of the sky and the stars. Thirdly, he will make a statue
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speak, demons will use a tree or a lifeless piece of wood as an
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instrument, with the aid of which they will utter their fabrications and false oracles.
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Pieces of furniture will also be see to move and a runabout of themselves.
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Mountains will change their positions in an instant, and demons transformed into angels
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of light will appear in the air. Then, by an incomprehensible judgment of
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God, the freethinkers and the great skeptics of the last time will like these
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impostures, and will like these will take these impostures and conjuring tricks seriously dupes
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of their own presumption and credulity. They will plunge headlong into all follies and
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necromancy and divination, thus vindicating in the face of the world the oracle of
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the Sacred Books. Now, the Spirit manifestly saith that in the last time
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some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error and doctrines
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of devils. Attendees, Well, that's same thing in Latin, Okay,
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attendities, I guess so you pronounced that. Lastly, it is written that
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the pride of the man of sin will be boundless, he will open his
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mouth and blasphemy against God, to blaspheme, his name, his Tabernac,
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and the saints in heaven. Daniel says that he will think himself entitled to
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abolish the times and laws. This is, he will suppress feasts and Sunday
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observants, alter the order of the month and the links and divisions of the
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weeks, and remove Christian names for the calendar, replacing them with emblems of
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the lowest animals. You know, our tour observant brothers and sisters really ought
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to read this, the ones that say we shouldn't worship on Sunday and we
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have to be circumcised, and we really need to go back to Jewish tradition
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anyway, in the words of the discounterfeit of Christ. Oh and also like
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the Jehovah's witnesses in seven day alf vetis, many of whom don't observe Easter
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or Christmas. By the way, speaking of changing Christian names on the calendar
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and getting rid of feasts. In a word, this counterfeit of Christ will
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be an atheist in the full sense of the term. He will make away
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of the cross and every religious symbol was Daniel again declares he was substitute of
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abominable rights for the Christian sacrifice. In every church pulpits will be silent.
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Teaching and education will be lay compulsorying godless, so we're already there. Jesus
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Christ will be banished from the child's cradle, from the ultra where spouses are
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united, from the bedside of the dying, over the whole surface of the
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earth. Worship of any God other than this Christ of Satan will not be
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tolerated. In his impenetrable designs, God will allow men to undergo this supreme,
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terrible trial in order to teach them how great the power of the devil
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is, and to amenst them and how immense their own weakness. He desired
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to announce it to us so that we might prepare ourselves even now to sustain
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it by having recourse to Him through prayer, and by providing ourselves with the
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spiritual weapons of charity and faith. In addition, Antichrist is destined to bring
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out in its splendor the fidelity and constancy of those whose names are written in
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the Book of Life, those whom all his violence and wiles would not succeed
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in daunting on the other hand, is certain that the duration and bitterness of
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this persecution will make it the ultimate criterion for discerning the elect from the reprobate,
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since it will also be the ruin of many whose perseverance will fail.
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Thus it will be a test set for the ruin and the resurrection of many,
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that out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed. Apostases will be numerous,
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and courage will become rare. It is written that the powers of the
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heavens will be shaken, and the stars of the firmament will fall. In
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other words, the leaders of people will be seen to bend the knee before
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the reigning idol. And what is still more lamentable, among the exponents of
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science, and the luminaries of theology, and the oracles of sacred eloquence,
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a large number will abandon the truth and let themselves be carried along by the
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current of depravity. Again, Saint John speaks of a strange, mysterious character
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which all little, both both little and great, rich and poor, freemen
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and bondmen, will be obliged to have on their right hand or on their
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forehead. This mark will be a sign of apostasy, attesting that all those
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who bear it, whether to please the Master or to escape his wrath,
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have renounced the true Christ and enlisted forever under the banner of his enemy.
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Those who bear this degrading mark will enjoy the advantages of fortune and abundance.
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They will have high salaries, the public offices, the multiplicity of pleasures,
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and all desirable possessions. But those who refuse to clothe themselves with this abominable
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seal will be outlawed. It is written that no man might buy or sell,
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but that he hath the character or the name of the Beast, or
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the number of his name. All those who do not have this mark will
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be forbidden to draw water from the public fountain, and will be even be
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unworthy to open their eyes to the light of day and breathe the pure air
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of the heavens. The tribulation would be great, such as not hath not
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been seen from the beginning of the world, until now neither shall be of
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us shall be seen again. In other words, the just will be dishonored
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and despised. They would be called fools and disturbers of the peace. They
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would be accused of trampling upon honor and patriotism by refusing to acclaim the greatest
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man ever to have appeared in the world, the incomparable genius who has raised
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human civilization to the zenith the protection and progress. It's starting to sound a
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little bit like AI, isn't it. If the justs were not to be
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sustained by special assistance from God, there would not be a single one who
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could withstand the violence of such temptation. In the dreadful days of the Great
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French Revolution, there were still some havens, places of safety where convict open
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to convicts and outlaws. The countryside was friendly. There were impenetrable forests and
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hidden isolated pass However, in the period we are engaged in describing, science
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and human discovery will have reached their zenith, and the surface of the earth
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will be dotted with telegraph wires and railways. Well, we could say cell
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phones sail right. Your smartphone tells everybody where we are. Every mountain will
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have been bored board through the tunnel. There will be no more rocks or
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caves, islands or deserts where freedom can expect a refuge. The hum itself
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will no longer be safe. For it has said that brothers show betray brother
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unto death, and the father his son. It is not unusual for the
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sacred books, when they reveal the future to us, to go into such
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practices. Minute in detail, the prophets speak to us only enigmatically and in
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abbreviated form. In general, they limit themselves to marking out the main lines
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of future events. However, so far as the final combat waged against the
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Saints is concerned, the inspired apostles have followed the maxim, and they have
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neglected nothing which might strengthen the just during these days and calamity. Thus,
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they teach us, at this time the East will once more become the focal
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point of politics and human affairs. That the impostor, possessed with the blind
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maniacal passion to desecrate the holiest places, those where which have been scenes of
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the labors and sufferings of the god Man, Jesus will establish his royalty at
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Jerusalem. In other words, the Antichrist will make his kingdom in Jerusalem.
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Obviously, that hasn't happened yet the modern day state of Israel. I mean,
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obviously we have not encountered the Antichrist yet, and hopefully he will not
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come in our lives. It will be pretty horrible if he does. For
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our consolation, they tell us that God will shorten the duration of his power,
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limiting it to forty two months or three and a half years. The
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number given the Sacred Books probably does not express the length of time which the
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man of Sin will need in order to conquer the earth and reached the zenith
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of his omnipotence. It is not reasonable suppose that, even with the aid
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of superhuman and satanic powers which would be at his disposal, he would be
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able to become master of the earth at a single day. You know,
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this is this is someone who's going to have a one world government, probably
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of Jewish birth, probably based in Israel. Yeah, it hasn't come yet,
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So I just want to, you know, assuaze your fears a little
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bit. But anyway, even you know, as awful as George Soros is,
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uh, he hasn't been able accomplish all that, right, Okay,
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especially wipe out the entire Catholic Church, no, no mass anywhere. You
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know. Yeah, they tried during COVID, but you know, we got
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through it. They haven't been successful yet, all right. It is supposed
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that he will only attain fullness of his sovereigntry gradually, and will require a
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longish period to subsuit, subdue the names, and develop the whole world in
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a murky web of his trickery and seduction. All we know from and by
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the way, George Soros may be able to do a lot. He can't
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call down fire from heaven, walk on water, raise the dead. Okay,
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so again, just persuade your fears a little bit. But obviously this
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doesn't describe the pope, doesn't. Okay anyway, all we know from Saint
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John and Daniel is that his dominion over men of every race, tribe,
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and language will subsist. That is in one year, two more years,
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and half years, so three and a half years. Daniel in chapter twelve
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tells us from the time where the continual sacrifice should be taken away, that
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means no mass. They're not talking about temple worship in Israel. They're talking
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the mass of the Catholic Church. From the time when the continual sacrifice should
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be taken away and the abomination and a desolation shall be set up, there
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should be twenty two hundred and ninety days. Hence, it follows that the
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point when Christ will no longer be present on our altars, offering himself as
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a victim to his father's justice in order to make reparation for men's crimes,
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is to be reckoned from the day when the Antichrist has obtained universal dominion.
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Only at the end, with the unbloody sacrifice of the altar cease to be
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celebrated. But until that day, and during the time taken by Antichrist to
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achieve his kingship, the sacrifice of the mass will continue to subsist. Saint
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John indicates the name of the Antichrist, but he deems it proper to tell
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us only in the form of numerals. We know that in various languages numbers
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can be translated into letters of the alphabet, and so conversely the letters of
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the alphabet into numbers. So Saint John tells us that, in a language
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which he does not make known to us, the name of the Beast has
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expressed in the number six sixty six. The fathers and doctors have labored to
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discover the key to this number and to ascertain the hidden the name hidden beneath
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the mysterious number, but their investigations have come to nothing. It is possible
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to imagine a vast number of different names, with letters of which, according
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to the way they are put together, express the number into created by Saint
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John. We cannot go beyond the view of Saint Irenaeus, who assures us
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that the Holy Ghost presented the name of the Antichrist in the form of this
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enigmatic number because he wanted its true meaning to remain unknown until the fullness of
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his prophecy, the day when it would be in the interest of men for
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Antichrist to be revealed to them. Then, says Saint John, he that
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hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast. Saint Paul tells
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us that God is faithful, for he has made a pact with temptations,
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not permit man to be tested beyond his strength. Here the temptation will exceed
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the normal conditions of the lass of mankind. It will be proportionate. It
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benefits the mercy of God that the remedy should be proportionate to the extent of
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the evil. Now the means of a sucker foretold in the most superhuman and
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extraordinary, the most alien to the rules of history and the ordinary workings of
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providence. Of all those that heaven assent man since incarnation, just when the
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tempest is as it's most violent, when the Church is leaderless and the unbloody
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sacrifice, that the mass has been everywhere ceased, and everything seems humanly lost,
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two witnesses, Saint John tells us, will be seen to arise.
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These two witnesses will be two strange men, appearing suddenly amidst the world,
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without anyone being able to say what birth or origin they are, nor from
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what place or family they have come. This is how Saint John speaks of
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them in the eleventh chapter of the Apocalypse. And I will give unto my
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two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand, two hundred and sixty days
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closed in sacktroth. These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks that
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stand before the Lord of the Earth. No tongue can express the sheer amazement
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which will grip mankind at the sight of these two men, strangers for our
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passions and affairs, one of them having lived six thousand years, in the
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other thirty centuries in some ethereal region or other, beneath the firmaments or upon
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the spheres, inacceptable, inaccessible to our senses and understanding. Yet neither of
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these witnesses is alien to the human family. One of these candlesticks or olive
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trees is Enoch. The other, the great great Grandfather, is Enoch,
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the great great grandfather of Noah, direct ancestor of the whole human race.
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The other is the prophet Elias. Elias, who the Savior has said is
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destined to restore all things. He will come a second time to stem the
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tide of wickedness, more reckless and unrestrained than it was in the days of
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hm it will be. It will also be the hour of the redemption of
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Israel. The great Prophet will convince the posterity of Abraham that the Messiah has
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come and will remove the veil of ignorance and darkness which has lain heavily upon
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their eyes for nineteen centuries. What sort of appearance in bearing with these strangers
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from another age present, What venerable majesty will shine forth from their person?
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What inspiration inspired language will flow from their lips? Holy scripture does not tell.
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It teaches us that they will prophesy for one thousand, two hundred and
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sixty days, closed in sackcloth and their garments and features bearing the marks of
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humility and penance. According to Daniel, the persecution of the Antichrist will last
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for one two hundred and ninety days, so the preaching of Enoch and Elias
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will be thirty days shorter. Hence, it follows they will appear in the
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period with the persecution is unleased with greatest violence. How within the space of
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time set for their mission, will they manage to give their testimony to all
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the earth, to all the inhabited places that cover the whole of the earth,
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he said, Will we answer that it will not be necessary them for
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visit every town. It would be enough for them to appear in the principal
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ones, For their preaching will be heard in the capitals and main centers of
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the population where Antichrist has been present and exercised it most powerful fascination. Furthermore,
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it is unlikely that Enoch and Elias will be constantly together, as more
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probable that they will preach separately until command from God or following providential inspiration,
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they suddenly come together for a final battle. And you know, he goes
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on to talk quite a bit about Enoch and Elias, But we're getting a
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little long here. Probably better go ahead and wrap it up. I promise
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we will return to this topic, to this book and its entirety at some
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point in the future. I'll probably reference it quite often between now and then,
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because, as you can see, it's really fascinating, it's very well
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researched. I want to assure you that after Enoch and Elias have appeared,
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and all the Jews and probably you know, according to the Blessed Mother,
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all the Muslims and all the Protestants, they will do so when the Antichrist
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is killed, God will kill the Antichrist. That's what it says in the
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Bible, that will bring about the final judgment and finally the universal ruling of
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the Kingdom of God, a new new Heaven, new earth, peace and
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goodwill everywhere. And as scary as all this can be, we know how
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the story ends, and you know we win. God wins. Let's try
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to be on his side. In the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray,
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hope and don't worry, and I'll talk to you next time.